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Article :: An Interview with Watts Humphrey, Part 26: Catastrophic Software Failures and the Limits

 
Author: informit.com
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In this transcript of an oral history, Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In Part 26, Humphrey discusses the software failures of the Therac-25 and the V-22 Osprey, why testing catches less than 1% of all scenarios, and why good software is like a symphony, where one bad line of code -- or one bad musician -- can ruin the entire piece.

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